My name is Pim Huijnen (Heerlen, 1979) and I work as an assistant professor in Digital Cultural History at the Department of History and Art History.

My research focuses on the use of digital text analysis to investigate the history of science and the history of ideas. I am, particularly, interested in conceptual history and the circulation of knowledge between the scientific, political and commercial domains and popular culture.

As a teacher I am involved in courses that focus on digital humanities methods and techniques and on digital pedagogy. I also enjoy teaching courses on methods and theory of history in general. I supervise BA and MA theses on digital history, intellectual history and the history of science, popular culture (film, games), and media history.

Together with Swantje Falcke and the UU Centre for Digital Humanities, I have developed an online tool that helps teachers at the Faculty of Humanities and beyond reflect on the impact of generative AI on their courses. Since GenAI is a moving target, the tool will be updated regularly. 

I am chairing the curriculum committee for the four master programs in history. I am an affiliated member of the UU Centre for Digital Humanities and a member of the Community for Open Science in Education network (COSiE; funded by this USO project). I am a member of the advisory board for Open Education at UU and of the national steering board of SSHOC-NL.